than you might consider the difference between acting like one..and dressing a certain way. Cause the article is about dressing.. Im sure if any white kid was out acting like a thug it would be suspicious too..

Yeah, you're right. I got off topic. The shooter is clearly guilty or murder, I don't disagree with that.

In essence you're trying to say black youth bring this upon themselves because they dress reckless & ignorant, and even if their personalities don't fit those descriptions, it's somehow justified if [white] people make those a.ssumptions about them.

And I'm telling you this exact line of thinking is very typical with you crackass.....It's like you just can't admit that you were born with something that inherently forces you to feel some kind of way when you see a person of color who does NOT dress like a preppie whiteboy from princeton.

You're soooo intrenched with your belief you don't even realize that your bullsh*t a.ss rant has really NO RELEVANCE to Trayvon Martin as he was obviously not one of those as you put it. so my question is, why even bring that sh*t up?? What exactly are you trying to say?? Was Trayvon somehow acting like those kids you supposedly saw?? Is that somehow supposed to make us understand and justify zimmerman's actions??

In short: WHAT'S YOUR fu*kIN POINT [if its not that Trayvon brought this onto himself]???

Yea I'll wait.

I'm saying that if you dress and belligerently act like a thug... people will think you're a thug, whether it's through the eyes of a White, Black, Asian person, etc. It has nothing to do with this article since this kid wasn't acting that way. Once again, I'm saying this is an a.ssociation/perception and people take it to different degrees. In this case I think this Zimmerman guy, who's Hispanic from what I understand shot an innocent kid. I'm not trying to justify his actions, for whatever reason you're getting it twisted acting like I am in order to act like I'm just some racist White guy.

i live on the westside (90% white side) of the town im in now. ive been walkin and gotten stopped literally 6 ft away from my crib and they use the same excuse (Burglary Suspects) everytime. its happen to me 4 times outta the 6 yrs i lived here. i always laugh at em and ask em did they stop me cuz im black or am i a burglary suspect.

Although I agree with certain aspects of this article I feel like he's missing some important points also. As a White guy that grew up in Long Branch, NJ, now living in Jersey City and has worked for years in Jamaica, Queens & Newark, with clients in Camden, Paterson & Elizabeth I'm surrounded by a variety of people everyday, which I like, or I'd live and work somewhere else.

To me, it's not that White people look inconspicuous, it's these minority youth that dress and act like they have something to prove.

Uh, no.

I live in a white suburb. I stay to myself and still get profiled all the time.

Walk into a Walgreens in a fu*kin suit, still got followed by some undercover shopper.
Pulled up to a gas station in my 45k car, got hawked hard by some $7/hour clerk as I decided what candy bar I wanted to buy.

I get followed, watched... clerks go from being happy and talkative with white customers to mute's when I get to the register; they don't even say hi half the time... I see old women watch me closely when I go to my car.

My clothes fit me and I damn sure don't run around trying to be seen. We're stereotyped by a lot of whites, period. You wouldn't understand that though. You're still white at the end of the day. You just watch a few n*ggas and think you get the reason why we go through the sh*t we go through.

Although I agree with certain aspects of this article I feel like he's missing some important points also. As a White guy that grew up in Long Branch, NJ, now living in Jersey City and has worked for years in Jamaica, Queens & Newark, with clients in Camden, Paterson & Elizabeth I'm surrounded by a variety of people everyday, which I like, or I'd live and work somewhere else.

To me, it's not that White people look inconspicuous, it's these minority youth that dress and act like they have something to prove. I think the stem of it is intercultural machismo mentality, which transcends outward to regular society, creating stereotypical thoughts and feelings of discomfort. When I see these young kids leaving school, they're walking in front of cars like they don't give a sh*t, cursing and yelling as they walk down the road and acting like they don't give a sh*t about anyone else around them I sometimes wonder myself... WTF are they thinking?

My heart goes out to the family of Trayvon I'm sure he was a great kid with a bright and opportunistic future, but to sit here and say White people don't look suspicious when most of them aren't walking down the street with their pants falling off their a.ss, cursing, yelling with no regards for other people in their community, it's pretty obvious why one group appears less suspicious than another.

I'll start the post by saying Im Black.. This whole situation is a travesty. More than that though, its a great example of how n*ggas who act like coons are detrimental to the black community. They are also making life dangerous for those of us who don't.

A good kid was k!lled because some idiot mistook him for a thug. Its sad that as black people we let the minority of us who act like monkeys, make life this difficult for us. Now i can't even walk down the street in a comfortable hoody and some loose jeans because theres a certain demo of black folk I may be mistaken for..

I'll start the post by saying Im Black.. This whole situation is a travesty. More than that though, its a great example of how n*ggas who act like coons are detrimental to the black community. They are also making life dangerous for those of us who don't.

A good kid was k!lled because some idiot mistook him for a thug. Its sad that as black people we let the minority of us who act like monkeys, make life this difficult for us. Now i can't even walk down the street in a comfortable hoody and some loose jeans because theres a certain demo of black folk I may be mistaken for..

I completely agree. This poor kid was minding his own business and had a great future ahead of him, but like I said it only takes a few rotten apples to spoil the bunch. Usually when I state my opinions here, no matter how neutral they might be, I get stereotyped as a racist, because I'm a White guy weighing in on a subject involving another race people lump me in with the minority of dumbass White biggots. Thank you for seeing through that.